Eric Tatchell was a young child who was briefly fostered by Kevin Ball and Veronica Fisher in Series 2. The Social Worker who arranged the foster arrangement, Marissa Platting, revealed that Eric's rich parents played the stock market but got into debt and the day before their house repossession they fled to Málaga in Spain but left Eric behind, alone. While he was living with Kev and Veronica, Eric would often play with Debbie Gallagher.